04-01-2020, 10:27 PM
The Philly 46-350 is a great little radio -- One of Philco's Greats!!!
I have one that I've owned since 1954 when I was nine, and it works like a champion to this day. Not that it hasn't had a rough road in the intervening years. When I was ten, a ham pal helped me move it's tuning range up to cover the 80 meter ham band and add a bfo for code reception. In that guise, the Philco was my first decently stable receiver while I was learing radio and practicing code. Very sensitive.
Three years later, having acquired a BC-348 for ham use, I converted the Philcot back to BC band (with a parts transplant from a junker since the 80 meter conversion had involved several forms of brutality including unwinding turns from coils. pulling plates out of the tuning condenser, adding the BFO and other mayhem).
Since that reconversion back in the late fifties, the little set has been a loyal companion, and about fifteen years ago I gave it a complete recap and alignment. Still works GREAT! Replaced the brown leatherette covering the cabinet with heavy blue denim and a coat of urethane varnish... Far from standard, but rugged as anything!
For a while, it sported a replacement handle made from a military web belt. Make Do!
73
AL7ES
I have one that I've owned since 1954 when I was nine, and it works like a champion to this day. Not that it hasn't had a rough road in the intervening years. When I was ten, a ham pal helped me move it's tuning range up to cover the 80 meter ham band and add a bfo for code reception. In that guise, the Philco was my first decently stable receiver while I was learing radio and practicing code. Very sensitive.
Three years later, having acquired a BC-348 for ham use, I converted the Philcot back to BC band (with a parts transplant from a junker since the 80 meter conversion had involved several forms of brutality including unwinding turns from coils. pulling plates out of the tuning condenser, adding the BFO and other mayhem).
Since that reconversion back in the late fifties, the little set has been a loyal companion, and about fifteen years ago I gave it a complete recap and alignment. Still works GREAT! Replaced the brown leatherette covering the cabinet with heavy blue denim and a coat of urethane varnish... Far from standard, but rugged as anything!
For a while, it sported a replacement handle made from a military web belt. Make Do!
73
AL7ES
